Places WindupMan Wants to Go

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

Bunski Kanal is a hidden natural wonder where the emerald Buna River dramatically merges with the mighty Neretva through a narrow limestone channel.

This narrow cave is revered in Japan as the womb of Mount Fuji.

An eerie, protected forest of old-growth oak trees, many of which are now dead.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Despite being built 50 years ago, this housing estate's unconventional design gives it a futuristic, sci-fi aesthetic.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.